Violence

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Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Section I Pragmatism and Its History; 1 The Romance of Philosophy; 2 The Pragmatic Turn; 3 Richard Rorty: 'So Much the Worse for Your Old Intuitions, Start Working Up Some New Ones'; 4 John Dewey's Encounter with Leon Trotsky; Section II Democracy and Pluralism; 5 The Spectre Haunting Multiculturalism; 6 Cultural Pluralism; 7 Charles Taylor's Engaged Pluralism; 8 Democratic Hope; 9 The Normative Core of the Public Sphere; Section III Critique in Dark Times; 10 Herbert Marcuse's Critical Legacy. Cover Title Copyright Dedication Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Section I Pragmatism and Its History 1 The Romance of Philosophy 2 The Pragmatic Turn 3 Richard Rorty: 'So Much the Worse for Your Old Intuitions, Start Working Up Some New Ones' 4 John Dewey's Encounter with Leon Trotsky Section II Democracy and Pluralism 5 The Spectre Haunting Multiculturalism 6 Cultural Pluralism 7 Charles Taylor's Engaged Pluralism 8 Democratic Hope 9 The Normative Core of the Public Sphere Section III Critique in Dark Times 10 Herbert Marcuse's Critical Legacy. 11 Hannah Arendt: Thought-Defying Evil12 The Justification of Violence? Section IV Morality, Politics and Religion 13 Can We Justify Universal Moral Norms? 14 Is Politics 'Practicable' without Religion? 15 The Secular-Religious Divide: Kant's Legacy 16 Paul Ricoeur's Freud Works Cited Name Index Subject Index.